Carmine Appice: The Rod Stewart Years

[@waltonbrown]

Feb 1979 i was a 16 year old drummer living in Wellington, New Zealand, Carmine was in town with Rod Stewart on the Blondes Have More Fun tour, the afternoon of the show Carmine did a drum clinic at a local music store, remember, this was way before clinics were a ‘thing’ and Carmine was doing them back then!!! I remember Carmine walking into the store, sitting down at a Ludwig kit set up in the middle of the shop, grabbed 1 x stick & 1 x brush and played a ‘BOSSA’.... true story, remember he also wrote Realistic Rock, probably the first decent Drum Method Book ever written. A drummer way ahead of everyone else at the time.

[@MANN1257.]

Woww it's a mazing know about that unforgettable story...!!! G👀d for you...!! In that time I had 22 years old and I was with my girl friends ""HANGING OUT"" ,in the Rock's Cluds in Puerto Rico...!!! It was a g👀d times , pace and love all the time and ROCK🤘🎼🎵🎸🎶🥁🔊🎹🔊...!!! My opinion from 👉🇵🇷PR.🤘🙏😊

[@johnnyeco280]

Cuba Street?

[@kpaddler1]

I used to be Carmine's neighbor up on Long Island many years ago. Glad you are doing so well. I remember Vanilla Fudge well!!!

[@loucontino4804]

Spent a week with Carmine down in North Carolina in '78 at a Ludwig Symposium, the dude is Rock Royalty!

[@michaelschmidt9708]

Carmine has definitely lived the life. One of the all-time great drummers who's played with a ton of other greats. Too bad Sykes never green lit a Blue Murder reunion.

[@craigmonteforte1478]

In my family i have a Aunt and Uncle that had 10 Children 6 girls ,4 Boys and all the boys play Drums we all grew up together and i’ve Known of Carmines drumming since i was a Small child in the 70s it’s always kind of mystified me as to how to pronounce Appice at that moment and why it had changed so many times with my cousins we have a old old running joke amoung ourselves is it A Peace , AppySee , or A Peach Ay , That’s The Real Question i’m glad Carmine touched on the subject and kind of explained the mystery , one of my most favorite Vinyl LPs of all time and i’m almost 60 is Beck Bogart ,and Appice ! i love Sir Rods music in general ,and of course when Carmine was with the group it was one of Rods best years ! Keep Rocking ! Carmine ! BTW the next generation of my Cousins off spring are Rocking Long Island NY and the Upstate area one of the Grandsons has been winning contests at Bethel ( Woodstock ) ,and. has been sitting in with many of his Grandfathers current bands and getting Media Coverage etc Playing with the Stage name Vinny Sticks ! This Kid Is Good and he isn’t a Teenager yet !

[@wildbill5670]

I bought "Blondes have more fun" on vinyl in 1978.

[@pugetlexus]

when i was coming up learning how to hit a drum, carmine had the drum chair with rod. rod in my view had always the best drummers looking back to kenny jones and later. so we hear Carmine all over the radio which is all we had to learn from records being very expensive, laying down the simple grooves behind rod,and then we see his books filled with impossible , for us polyrhythmic exercises. wow is this the same cat? its fair to say that Carmines image and books and posters were in every music store in america in that period. he was everywhere with that blade thin moustache and that east coast vibe . he just looked damgerous. " man , like u better get it goin on or he is coming down on u." a lot of cat to come down on a 16 year old kid looking for where "1" is..... yea , heavy aint the word in those days. and then his drims. huge . big beyond belief. i later got married to my 26" x16" ludwig and have been happily so for 25 years. i get now where he is coming from thank you Carmine.

[@rockrecordreport7136]

Love the double "Beck Bogert and Appice Live in Japan" album which never gets mention as one of the great s live sets. Great drum sound and great playing from all.

[@SpenceCurry]

Me too. Check out their brief 1974 brit tour where they play bba2

[@clausm2203]

Great interview

[@edsphone6952]

I learned drum patterns from one of Carmine's books in the mid 70's.👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 Iplay Pearldrums

[@dynasticlight1073]

The ,Pantera He took. I, had a Volvo when I was doing Hall & Oates auditions and albums. Hung w/ Carmine a few times way back in 71' ,then in the next century.

[@ufafgd]

Nice to see a drummer I admired and grew up listening to has a coffee cup collection. I started one some years back also. (An old drummer myself). Kind of a " birds of a feather" thing maybe. Who knows. I did learn a thing or two from just watching him play.

[@taimeuppe6174]

Carmine came along at the right time in music..got to see him with Cactus a couple of times

[@lethiapage4767]

I didn't know the reason for the name change. I adore Rod Stewart and so I have known about Carmine forever. I guess nobody thought about maybe Rod could introduce him using the proper name and everyone would follow and pronounce it correctly forevermore. Too easy and then we wouldn't have a story. Also it's also damn sad how he got "did dirty" in that band.

[@Harleyforever20]

What a class act!

[@lorettahookano6139]

Yeah , Carmine is a great roll model & a man of great character considering the business that he’s in.

[@lilmoe4364]

A real pro

[@czar14617]

ONE GREAT DRUMMER

[@michaelperry9946]

I remember Dio intro'd Vinny as 'Aaa-Pa-See' but I wasn't having it. It will always be 'A-Peace' or Carmine & Vinny can settle this once and for all and go by Smith 😁

[@fishypictures]

I hate back stabbers .Had that experience myself, ….. I was able to get even, not proud of it but it had to happen. Carmine is cool.

[@zenveg]

The real Italian pronunciation is Car mean eh A peach eh. My Italian wife LOL’d at the common pronunciation.

[@phillipweber6059]

Nice to finally get some clarification about the pronunciation of the last name. Thank you!!!!

[@billybob1723]

Interesting to hear Appice praise Rod Stewart. Carmine always struck me as a man's man and Rod was arguably androgynous.

[@buddyleewoods2327]

These are great interviews , the Appice bros are solid musicians & people \m/

[@drummersinger5324]

Carmine is the drummer of his family. He of course has to be polite to his baby brother who is very distant second.

[@mr.brenman2132]

​@@drummersinger5324Vinny Rules. He's not a distant second.

[@drummersinger5324]

@@mr.brenman2132 Sloppy and limited . No pocket . He's in the dust behind his brother

[@mr.brenman2132]

@@drummersinger5324 He's not sloppy or limited at all. Great drummer.

[@drummersinger5324]

@@mr.brenman2132 Let's hear him on a Good slow blues or ballad song? LOL . Doesn't have one ?

[@danbarrale5457]

Rod Stewart's organization could not handle the enormity and impact of Carmine... he's the focal point

[@zenveg]

Foot Loose is an amazing album.

[@roadglide]

Who really cares. Art is free and flowing. It is what it is. Filled with characters. Some humble, some,not so much. We need them all. It’s in this amalgamated mix we find the joy and golden honey. People like to hate. It takes energy, negative energy at that. Find the good. Leave the hate. Peace

[@impalaman9707]

That's funny that Rod said he couldn't remember why he fired Carmine. I remember vividly an article in an old rock magazine from 81-82 (either Circus or Hit Parader?) where Rod Stewart made a famous quote I will never forget as long as I live: "Never trust a drummer who has his own name on the front of his drum kit!"

[@jackflash5659]

That is hilarious!

[@koolkitties8552]

Robert Plant :Am I a joke to you?

[@paradoxstudios6639]

6:11 lol,, Telly Savalas about to get in on some groupie action.

[@MENFUSSMIKE]

"Dirty Weekend"

[@jimilove7773]

Rod the Mod!

[@usaslakt]

Carmine is like the president of his own fan club.

[@michaelkepes6125]

😂😂😂

[@rusty2022-uy7ov]

...well...if you and I and the folks commenting here accomplished what he did, and an absolute badass drummer, we all could have our own fanculbs..😂😂 besides he's from NYC...he's just plain spoken...that's his Italian/NY speech pattern...that's all....

[@SiberianHusky666]

Vice president, treasurer, and traveling secretary, too.

[@usaslakt]

@@SiberianHusky666 😁

[@jasonhickerson4122]

I never heard that Carmine was in line for Zeppelin. I heard it was Cozy Powell and Carl Palmer. In that order. I don't think Zeppelin would play with anything other than an English drummer.

[@Cincinnatus1869]

They were working with Tony Thompson , an American ( and very funky and powerful) drummer for awhile in the 80s. Tony had a car crash and got injured so it didn't go anywhere

[@deandee8082]

lol, I collect coffee mugs too, I go for city cups, so usually any city you;re in you can stop at a coffee shop and they will have their city mug, I have others but those are my favorites, which is weird cuz my mother collected mugs as well and I didnt know it till about 5 years ago when I was at their vacation home where they were on display, she had began way earlier than myself she din't know how long since all the kids left but I only been in it 16 years or so? I mean when do you say you began collecting mugs, the first set you buy? the first time you put a mug away and don't drink out of it? if that's the case about 25 years ago then but I wasn't really looking to collect at that point about 16 years ago when I thought I wanna build a collection, or a larger collection... Ma still has me beat prolly 45 years for her, how long you been collecting Carmine? whoda thunk mugs would be rare or collectable? lol

[@thedigitalemotion]

The only band this man is worth notoriety for is Blue Murder. Forget vanilla fudge, Rod, it’s not even comparable on any single level. Blue Murder was incredible.

[@gregrlrrlrll9129]

Can’t compare Blue Murder to Rod. Totally different musical genre. And not forgetting BM only lasted about 6 years. Rod has been popular for50 + years. That should tell you something.

[@thedigitalemotion]

@@gregrlrrlrll9129 Yes, it tells me that the very best music is like a Michelin starred meal - you don't have it for ever, but it lasts and its memory will live on forever like a cult classic and more and more people want to taste the enigma. And the worst music is like McDonalds, its mediocre crap churned out all the time (on radio) and no one gives a shit about it. Case closed.

[@garycordle5295]

Blue Murder was one of my favorites badass 👍

[@georgieboy5388]

@@thedigitalemotion yet they’re still listening that ‘mediocre’ music that nobody gives a shit about today. Why would that be I wonder. Case closed.

[@themurphrees3795]

I vividly remember walking into Sound Warehouse “Music store on FM1960” in Houston Tx, and “Blue Murder” first album was playing in the store, I asked the clerk who they were and he told me and I bought the immediately, Great album, about 3 months later Blue Murder was playing at a club in Houston “Cardis” and I was standing right against the stage, I believe the all the tickets were general admission. Idk know if this was the best drumming that Carmine did with a band, but it’s probably is the least famous outta all the bands he has played with, but then again Blue Murder was a supergroup, all the members were top notch and came from very successful bands. John Sykes “Whitesnake”, Tony Franklin “The Firm”.

[@Jacob-sh4ym]

You don't call me??? Are you kidding me or something, I'm the best the one and only, and you don't call me??? Lol only Carmine would say something like that!!! 🤣 When he said that to the tour manager, that was the precursor for him getting fired!!! "EGO"!!!

[@scottbartlett4853]

"I coulda been a champ!"

[@anz2441]

Carmine taught Rod how to sing and considers himself above buddy rich...go figure

[@jonathanbrody3979]

You don’t call me

[@nista67]

Bloody Jim.

[@gypsytreasures3856]

They could have thought his ego was too big.

[@buddywilliams5650]

Okay, Sharon Osbourne. 😆

[@SiberianHusky666]

Appice and his bad wigs and horrific mustaches. After 70 years, can somebody please finally buy this guy a hand mirror?

[@563421094]

Mr Cregan got jealous...

[@j-mo2453]

Poor Rod couldn’t pick up groupies… why do I think just maybe he paid off the sex police to keep quiet? Lol

[@j-mo2453]

One of the funniest things I’ve ever heard from Rod was on unplugged as he introduced reason to believe and points out his wife was only one. Lmao

[@j-mo2453]

When it was written lol

[@johndeaux3703]

Who cares about the Rod Stewart years. I wanna hear about his time with 'The Rockers'.

[@Jaake-my2rq]

I can't recall if Carmine played on it, but "Night On The Town" is a great record.

[@tourdefacre9687]

No Carmine - you were ousted from RSG because you thought you deserved more recognition than Rod. Jim Cregan and Gary Grainger were the real writers (along with Rod) - you just wanna blame Jim because he stayed the distance. Tony Brock was the best touring drummer Rod had since Faces.

[@roadglide]

No one really cares that much. Art is free and flowing. It is what it is. Filled with characters. Some humble, some,not so much. We need them all. It’s in this amalgamated mix we find the joy and golden honey. People like to hate. It takes energy, negative energy at that. Find the good. Leave the hate. Peace

[@bertvanstaveren3178]

And he still got his natural hair color.....oh wait.

[@ronagoodwell2709]

Rockers are children at heart, set loose in the candy store. But Carmine is known to have an ego the size of Mt. Everest. He was probably fired from Rod Stewart's band for being annoying. That nasal New York or Philly accent of his ....

[@tonyklejna7071]

Hopefully Tom Merlynn didn’t ruin your career 😊😎🙄

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Carmine jumps bands faster then a pornstar jumps partners. He's got to be one of the hardest people to work with he trashes everyone He's worked with. He thinks he's the greatest drummer ever and he's average. He would be totally for gotten if he wasn't doing these gossip interviews

[@stes3061]

Hair dye

[@SiberianHusky666]

No, wig.

[@hugolafhugolaf]

2 meters bro. You don't have it.

[@MrGrand2000]

Being a hired gun his whole life and never a real part of a successful band hurting his ego

[@Duck_Dodgers]

Is he wearing a wig?

[@SiberianHusky666]

Only the carpet company that sold it to him knows for sure.

[@keithjennings5221]

Rubbish

[@danbarrale5457]

Great interview